Schools Outreach
Royal Statistical Society William Guy Lectureship 2024 - 2025
Each year, the Royal Statistical Society appoints three statisticians as William Guy Lecturers to record and deliver talks about statistics for primary, secondary and sixth form schools and colleges around a specific theme. In the 2024-2025 year, the theme ‘statistics in plain sight’ will encourage young people to recognise the relevance of statistics and data to their everyday lives.
My talk will be aimed at 11-16 year olds and is titled From lab to patient: How statistics shape decisions in medical treatment. I was appointed alongside Mary Gregory ( Office for National Statistics), with her talk ‘From sweets to streets: Understanding the world through statistics’ (for ages 5–11); and Mike Campbell (University of Sheffield) with his talk ‘Can I really believe that number? Statistics and Covid-19’ (for age 16+).
Royal Institution Masterclass
The Royal Institution run Ri Masterclasses - a series of hands-on workshops where students can explore mathematics and computer science beyond the scope of classroom curriculum.
How much does a lemur weigh?
Title: How much does a lemur weigh? An introduction to data science projects
In February 2024, I delivered a 2.5 hour interactive masterclass for around 65 high school aged children from across the North West. It focused on an end-to-end data science projects, covering topics including data visualisation, modelling, predictions, and understanding unusual values.
Florence Nightingale Day
In January 2024, I delivered a talk about my career path and data science projects I’ve worked on as part of Lancaster University’s Florence Nightingale Day celebrations, to an audience of around 200 students from local high schools.
Using data science to improve health outcomes
Title: Data, technology and medicine: Using data science to improve health outcomes
Abstract: The world is collecting more data than ever before, and there are many ways that it can be used in healthcare and medicine to improve our health and wellbeing. Data can help us to understand what happens to our brains as we get older, provide more information for doctors diagnosing rare heart murmurs, or identify ways to make the NHS more efficient. In this talk, I’ll discuss some of the research projects I’ve had the privilege to contribute to and showcase some of the ways we can make better use of data and technology within medicine. I’m also looking forward to sharing the process of working on these projects, and the journey I’ve taken to working in data science.
STEM Ambassador
I am registered as a STEM Ambassador with STEM Learning - an organisation who deliver teacher CPD (continuing professional development) in STEM subjects, bring STEM role models into schools as part of the STEM Ambassador Programme and providing bespoke, long-term support for groups of schools in collaboration with companies.
You can request a STEM Ambassador here.